sailing from russia to turkey's port but sank off the town of some before reaching its destination two crewmembers have been rescued and search teams are continuing to look for those still missing authorities say it's likely the storm caused the ship to tilt to one side and take on water. at least sixty people have died in eastern europe after a deep freeze and blizzard swept the region the drop in temperatures has prompted several countries to deploy the army and set up emergency shelters the highest death toll is in ukraine where thirty people died after temperatures hit minus thirty three weather forecasters say the subzero conditions are expected to last until friday. an ad campaign in the us paid for by the israeli government has angered many jewish americans throughout the country the commercials were designed to encourage israeli jews to return to the roots suggesting that america's jewish culture has weakened but as policy reports the ads seem to have done more harm than

good. the beckerman is could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. the goal is israeli married to border an american jewish woman it was saying is that my husband shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just. this is one of three ads sponsored by the israeli government and aid across the united states that evoked more than just an ouch from american jews when who is really grandparents ask what festival it is the american granddaughter happily on says christmas instead of the jewish festival of hunker the implied suggestion was that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who live there. american support cannot lots of point to. this us and so for them. shows a toddler calling daddy daddy to his napping is really expected father who finally

wakes up only when he son switches to hebrew american jews felt insulted by the suggestion that israeli jewish identity was more pure than american jewish identity but i think that that's really what bothered me about the ads is that they came from a place of almost fear mongering you know they were almost kind of trying to scare people who are living here israelis are living here the ads were designed to encourage israelis living in the united states to come home but critics complained they smacked of arrogance ignorance and cultural disrespect for america instead of giving positive reasons for expects to return to israel they failed to address why many had left in the first place i think a lot of american jews look to going on israel what's developing in the parliament particular in the field stream we'll unit it from that and they say to themselves this is not the israel that we fell in love with this is not israel that we want to defend american jewry has always been more liberal than israeli society they traditionally voted democrat and often open to a list off the docks practice of judaism then the israeli counterparts. for years

a rift has been growing between the two much of it based on the aggressive policies of tel aviv towards gaza and the occupation these radio palestinian conflict still shows no signs of compromise and consecutive israeli governments have been unable or unwilling to reach agreement with the palestinians even many american jews feeling more and more alienated from israel does some of what's going on in the israeli public sphere troubled some north american jews troubled them very very greatly i have no question but that's the case since the late one nine hundred sixty s. israel has built hundreds of thousands of homes here in the west bank more than half a million people now live in settlements television nonstick was issuing tenders four thousand war homes to be built across the green line evoking anger and condemnation from the international community. as many as a million one in eight israelis live outside the country in the last five years the number of people who choose to leave the holy land has outpaced those wanting to

come and live in israel and although the ads are no longer on the air the reasons that they provoke such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved policy or r.t. television well that brings us up to date here on r t a time now for a bit of a date with katie. welcome to the business program this hour is all set to be the most hyped i.p.o. when ye is facebook is expected to file the paperwork for its public listing in new york as soon as today the social network will reportedly sell a ten percent stake to raise up to ten billion dollars this will be a record for a technology company to discuss the issue i'm joined by about may russian costly head of market research not after good afternoon thank you is joining us here now this is a lot of money we're talking about head of the first question has to be is facebook who are this much money definitely not we can turn back to the year of two thousand

actually to april when i was a lot of hopeful expectations about so called dot com companies unfortunately most of the ninety percent lost the boat eighty percent of the market well within the merger of couple of weeks remember that i'm not saying that facebook is necessarily your by the way facebook is not willing to schools all proceeds makes our investment people a little bit cautious the world. your what we know right now is. receiving about ten million dollars from online a lot of commercial items we don't know how watch the proceeds from the so called context which is right now the main source of revenue for companies like this and

obviously the question whether how facebook would be able to convert this huge traffic into a cash flow in the future cash flow it's a big if we prefer to have present cash flow now and a less to. in the world future cash flows. i mean you sinai hundred fifty million users that's a massive find how i mean what of reputation eight hundred fifty million users what how do you think that must be less something i mean come on. this is the main appeal of the ceo's like mr zuckerberg so in basically we have lot of people a lot of traffic he even culturally the. revenue per capita it means that each of us like you and me if you have an accountant face by of course the spend at least. has already spent at least one hundred twenty seven dollars. i haven't spent one

hundred twenty seven dollars although like this i communicate with my friends with overseas friends but i think the little bit of overestimation the facebook definitely has that much from each customer overexcitement them perhaps just i would call this a pure is. still a social a.p. or rather than a purely investment a pure this is a distinction facebook wants to be more in the spotlight it wants to be more talked about this is the reason it wants to go public. so we. investment people are especially in these hard times a more down to earth we tried to be a more skeptical because the time teaches us to solve for so far we haven't seen a huge inflow or real proceeds this is what makes us cautious and

makes us believe that facebook is not definitely worth one hundred billion dollars ok i can read employee do you think perhaps it's bad timing then you say other name an investor is a cautious it's a case of bad timing. how do you see to conclude the ip going well first of all the bad timing is obviously an issue and not a lot of company recently has been able to come to a successful a.p.i. was included in the ordeals of. monster like yahoo. years yahoo has been fighting for its way denied for several years it turned down their microsoft or for then eventually failed to fire and then your replacement. turned back to microsoft with a new offer and there's been going on and on and on right now what makes google for me obviously more lucrative more interesting is that google develops all that

networking with social networking and additional vigils garge of surrounded so therefore google already have in substantial capital maybe basically. goal head of the competitor. i k well we're certainly watching how the i.p.o. goes here on the business artefactual i would days like think you can cost the head of market research at north capital thank you very much indeed right let's have a look at what's going on in the markets right now a check out those exchange rates first figure is retreating just a notch against it on are both of you in on the u.s. currencies are higher against the russian ruble after seeing some losses in the previous sessions let's get over to europe and see what's going on in that part of the world the foot sea and the tides are by far there's reasonable gains over a percent of an adult's over one and a quarter of the stand up although greece will certainly be in the limelight as per

usual the monitor now as i say throughout the day down here in moscow the markets have bounced back from their earlier losses they are now both in the black the r.t.s. is just some plants positive and the my sex is point six this. up let's see what's happening on the my sex energy majors are among the biggest gainers would you call up one and a half percent is also high on his net profit rose over forty one percent in the first nine months of last year and pipeline at middleby transnet is also gaining the company plans to invest in billion dollars into its infrastructure by twenty twenty. that's it for this hour i'll be back in about fifty five minutes join me then in the meantime get on the website. for its national business.

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an israeli ad campaign in the us backfires by in a virtually insulting many jewish families across america many have criticized the commercial saying they use scare tactics to purge israeli jews to return to their roots. up next a special report that takes a fresh look at the impact of guns in america. if you want to play god work you get. a needle gun store good any gun store they're going to write a background check or write what you buy there. and they are big event is a gun show they have on weekends and this is where the gun store sellers can also go and sell shop but the individual people who own guns the person in question can come in also set up a table and do it himself against the gay seller so shabbes are still held to the same regulation that they need to read back and check on every purchase or food to people who come in so private me off sometimes you know the same gang that device

itself has is not required to run a background check said why are you not holding these to sell or selling the same the same product to same standard that's the problem just a loophole. her gun show say but they have to. go ahead of. her. way back to get. to it. her. there are all her automatic and all the things i've. read all. right we're going to never. tell you right. now.

that they have never seen anything. like they are. here right. here and i managed. the way. this entire transaction that we just recorded brady broke no law federal or state law this is why i want to do is to show these simple transactions and say this is something that's perfectly legal for countless shot i think we are like most americans who didn't have much involvement with gun violence and never to show lives and we

weren't really involved in the issue or didn't know a lot of the facts i knew that there were a lot of deaths in the newspaper it should be added and that many were attributed to guns but i didn't really realize how big the problem was i to my son was sitting in french class in a small college town and he got checked for comms. that makes it to me makes it any could be anyone could anything it could anything. after i recovered. the hospital and those were buried here we're back to school. i was thinking about this is. the gun show loophole is one of the simplest steps we can search for to improve the safety of guns falling into the wrong hands. so this is going to be a talk primarily about the epidemiology of violence the prevention of violence some research that's been done you all know that my area of expertise in general

is on what happens upstream in that chain of events that brings people to the emergency department having been exposed to it i decided this was something that needs to be quantified it's a story that needs to be told. the whole report will deal with what i see is the problematic aspects of what goes on it controls how guns are bought and sold anonymously how they're bought sold illegally what kind of weapons are bought and sold some aspects of the relationship between gun shows an extreme right wing politics neo nazi ism video confederacy. one of the things that i've been able to document is a straw purchase that is illegal everywhere and here's how it works let's say that i'm prohibited from owning guns i'm a felon but you are not i'm going to hire you to buy a gun for me from

a licensed retailer there's one in phoenix the real purchaser is handing cash to the straw purchaser in the red t. shirt which the straw purchaser then puts in his pocket the two of them walk around the corner where the real purchaser indicates the gun that he wants to buy. the strop purchaser gets hold of a sales clerk indicates that that's the gun the straw purchaser is completing the paperwork and to a more senior person at the at this retailer he gets on the phone as he is required to do and he calls the national instant criminal background check system but he's got the straw purchasers identification not surprisingly keep has passed the background check the straw purchaser hands over the money the real purchaser moves in and helps pack up the gun nobody had the sense a body was watching nobody had to sense if they would get in any trouble so that

felonies were conducted right out in the open they're the kind of transactions that make it easy for criminals to get guns. not too many years ago the air force commissioned a study of these weapons pointing out the fact that no airport civilian or military was entirely safe the range of these weapons was such that a determined bad guy could be well outside the security perimeter of an airport and still have a fair shot of an airliner as it took off or landed these guns are available from private individuals for cash no background check no waiting period no questions no record. more hate mail to. the from this is on the list for the house for who we think could be a likely co-sponsor on the legislation that we have twenty three twenty four the

gun show loophole bill and as it's a day we can move a couple more marks right here for example. as you mark this one you know it means they have agreed to co-sponsor our bill in the house. the basic requirements hold everyone at these gun shows everyone who sells guns to the same standard that's the first step it's not all private sales which is however much we would like to see all private sales but it's it's kind of the most from the most reasonable the most common sense first step with that. forum and we're doing the video calends undercover video and when you're speaking your house how is this going to be presented first. and then i'll let you know he said in minutes we'll bring you in about seven minutes be the forum or be the biggest event that i've ever spoken to i think you can a lot of your story i think it's important to have and i've spoken at rallies but i've never spoken in front of congress so that's something for me it's definitely

a big day you know the main thing we want to see you know is to tell the story to tell well to answer to questions you know you're laying the groundwork for us to build on for the next year or two years to come ok but i feel real good. i feel nervous you'll do great if most people agree that felons should be able to buy guns why shouldn't we do a background check on us thanks to the gun lobby in the n.r.a. try to think of every argument they could to stop this big banks ball and they do it with the idea that we're really out here protecting your right for gun ownership but what they're really doing is they're protecting the gun manufacturers and the gun dealers and ending up supporting the illegal gun distribution system in this country. richard feldman spent two decades working with one of the nation's most secretive organizations the national rifle association his new memoir ricocheted it

confessions of a gun lobbyist chronicles his time with the n.r.a. and other gun groups you write that the n.r.a. often likes to draw lines of us versus them do you think they're unwillingness to compromise has contributed to the success now that's a fair very fair question yes if. define success is fundraising it certainly has been very successful when you do fund raising you want to have an identifiable enemy you want to keep the issue black and white the word compromise to the n.r.a. is a dirty word never give an inch is the slogan fighting is good for the n.r.a. doing battle is good but they have to make issues sometimes when issues don't really exist just to keep that fund raising going well when they were asked to comment on your book a spokesperson told the washington post we don't comment on works of fiction. we all know that the n.r.a. is powerful and that the n.r.a. is ruthless but when they turn on one of their own and he decides to turn back on

them it's kind of like peering into a burlap sack full of ill tempered so and i just ask you on a personal level having been a top lobbyist at the n.r.a. having been essentially forced out of the gun lobby by the n.r.a. being unhappy with your approach to things how has this been for you personally to have been really kind of booted out well they needed to get rid of me because they want to be the only game in town and when i cut that voluntary child safety law deal with bill clinton without getting the table blessing from an ira we were threatening their hegemony over this issue thank you it was a remarkable gathering in the rose garden this morning because here with the head good industry and the president actually agreeing on something i'm pleased to announce that eight of the largest handgun manufacturers will now provide child safety devices with every new handgun they sell back in one nine hundred ninety

seven there was legislation in the senate to mandate child safety locks on guns there was pretty much universal agreement in the industry that we ought to do this on our own get the credit for doing it we thank you mr president without having led . site of all regulatory mandates on the way we had to do it by the n.r.a. came unglued after that announcement i sort of went from the guy who came from n.r.a. representing the industry to being an r a's public enemy number two. well we had really done was and several fundraisers for them i mean once we made the decision to include child safety locks was no sense opposing something that's already a done deal. i don't think n.r.a. senior leadership like that too much to feel secure in.

thirty to forty aisles of those probably fifty thousand people going to be here over the next four days and this is just one of three false. n.r.a. volunteers yeah they need a lot of volunteers because they pay that staff so much. easier and with the european leagues. are now outdated and they've been watching us i guess. maybe we got your. way you didn't have to prepare a party for me. earlier this. week where i just heard. well we have to check the symbolism it's not just the n.r.a.

has said and done any interviews with anyone that n.r.a. everywhere isaac has an angle. here i'd like to know that angle on this particular issue is that mary. jo you know we don't die. every church. every. i don't know if you've heard we got pulled off the floor earlier today really yells you criticize the n.r.a. why don't think i said it on film where they had a alley some people were nervous. this is one for the history books the first ever supreme court declaration that america's right to own a gun self protects. it is the first time the u.s. supreme court has ever taken up the right to bear arms under the second amendment since it was ratified back and seven hundred eighty one the second amendment rights justice antonin scalia protection individual right to possess

a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use it for lawful purposes such as self-defense justice scalia was careful not to throw out all gun control laws stating flatly the second amendment right is not unlimited. what do you see as being the current state of gun laws you know taking into context the history in american gun laws and where you think it's going i think in large measure the firearm debate in america is really over an hour is kind of a self-supporting station and if it's cause goes away it goes away they need a dragon to slay in order to continue to develop their membership in order to motivate their members and in order to fundraise from their members i get a fundraising letter from the n.r.a. about every other or every third week. and some a lot it is and some of them are really pretty intense and here's one from

from the summer dear mr feldman some of congress' most powerful anti gunners are demanding a registration list of every american gun owner they want your name this to tell them and they want to know where you live your address that's pretty frightening stuff i kind of disagree with the idea of scaring your members out of their hard earned dollars precedented government intervention chipping away at your rights to believe your freedom the n.r.a. instills a tremendous amount of fear in its members and the thing is it works. it motorized their members but you can stop them if you look at the historical moment there's really very limited threats to gun rights i mean we just came out of eight years of george bush in republican controlled congress we saw gun rights legislation during that period not gun control legislation two thousand and seven we see the worst single shooter killing spree in the history of the country at virginia tech and here we are a few years later we have virginia passing gun rights legislation right so

repealing some of the earlier gun control legislation that was passed do you believe in your right to own a gun you so you may be an endangered species called one eight seven seven n.r.a. to downsize and join the n.r.a. i think there are a range of n.r.a. members and among the most committed are the true believers the diehard n.r.a. members those are the gun crusaders. maybe one of three n.r.a. members would fall into this category there's a huge chunk of gun owners in our country who are not n.r.a. members the n.r.a. has a membership of about four million or something like eighty million gun owners in our country but the n.r.a. is driven by these gun crusaders he's really hard work in the business. and they're able to create these end. of the biggest deliberation of their video is that the n.r.a. is able to recruit intensely committed members because they're framing gun rights or threats to gun rights.